Nick Quotes

You've got to really know your song, inside and out.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s.

Cruel to be kind means that I love you.

I'm playing to the sort of people who like the same records.

When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.

The older I get, there doesn't seem to be anything remotely more interesting than talking about love and the lack of it and what happens when it's taken away from someone who's had it.

I felt that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to do certain things, and one of them was to have a hit in my own right. At least one.

I've always felt kind of like an outsider, even when I was very successful back in the old days. Even then. I kind of enjoyed it, really.

I used to sort of take the phone off the hook, you know, put my feet up and watch the TV until it was all over.

When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.

I use the name and the thought very, very easily as a sort of comfort - as a kind of comfort, in some way. And in that way, it's just like having a friend, I suppose.

And after, you know, having the old chicken or whatever it is they bring around and a couple of cocktails, you turn to the person sitting next to you and say, you know, you going home, then?

You want to sing this song. And so it goes on until eventually, after - well, however long it can take - sometimes a few days, sometimes months - you piece the whole thing together.

To a certain extent, yes, we do. But there's - but there's a very limited menu. There's only about sort of 20 songs that you hear on rotation.

I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.

I have been an actor now for 40 years having worked in over 10 countries and three languages.

Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.

Buying a Ferrari is like buying Château Pétrus if you like fine wines. It's the safe choice.

Of course, with the people you really know, no one changes that much.

When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.

It gets worse when you realize that for YECs, 22 months is only 1.4 million years in evolutionary time.

Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.

I was brought up to believe you should always live the most interesting life you can.

The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the world around me.

I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.

Making the documentary was an extraordinary experience and it really hit home to me the quasi-religious nature of this anthropogenic global warming cause. These people really have found religion.

I am not at all convinced that human emissions of CO2 are adding to global warming.... I remain to be convinced about the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

If the question is do people (in the Liberal Party) believe that human beings are the main cause of the planet warming, then I'd say a majority don't accept that position.

My brothers are both 6 ft. 5 in., and if you have younger brothers who are bigger than you then you have to learn the ancient martial art of sarcasm.

No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.

I haven't got any kids yet and it is something I need to address. I'm sure that, God willing, that'll be the next and most fabulous episode of my little life.

You learn as much from doing a bad film as a good one.

When you've been in the tabloids as a drunken 'It-boy', people automatically assume you're thick.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

As my mum still candidly says, I was the runt of the litter.

You want to be appreciated for all your work as opposed to one performance, but I'll always be 'that bloke from 'Lock, Stock'.' You've got to embrace it.

Storytelling sticks in the mind because it attaches emotions to events, and that's the way we remember things. If you don't tell stories, no one will remember what you say.

Mirror neurons make human empathy possible.

Every human emits unconscious vocal undertones that determine who the leader is in the room.

Indeed, we learn far more from our mistakes than our successes.

The key is to become aware of how you are signaling your presence in meetings, conversations, speeches - everywhere you show up. Then you can take charge of them.

The world is a very big place and there are many wonderful people in with ideas you haven't thought about. Talk to them, find out what they're thinking, so that you can be the best person you can be.

The unconscious mind governs our decision-making, and much of our communications. It's imperative, if you want to be a successful leader, to become aware of these key human actions.

The conscious mind is easily overwhelmed. The unconscious mind is vast and far more powerful, but by definition we're not aware of it.

If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player.

The person in power takes up the most space.

Gestures come first! Before we're consciously aware of our thoughts, we start to gesture. Pay attention to your gestures, and others', and you can become a more powerful communicator.

Use your unconscious mind to read other people's intents, emotions, and desires.

Our conscious minds are rapidly overwhelmed with the few tasks that they attempt to manage. That's why our unconscious minds have evolved to handle so much of our thinking.